This means that it should depend on as few external packages as possible. Minimize External Components: Running Flamenco should be extremely simple. The first version will likely just have a 'name' field when submitting jobs, and people are trusted to not mess with other people's jobs. Minimal Authentication & Organisation: Because Flamenco is aimed at small studios and individuals, it won't offer much in terms of user authentication, nor the organisation of users into groups. Its development will fall under the umbrella of the Pipline, Assets & IO module. This means that it's Free and Open Source, made by the community, lead by Blender HQ. The following principles guide the design of Flamenco 3:ī Project: Flamenco is a true project. Blender Studio uses various desktop machines for the render farm when they're not used by the artists, and some developer machines are powerful enough to run Flamenco and work on coding Blender at the same time. Think of roughly 1-10 artists using it, and 1-100 computers attached to the farm to execute tasks.

Target Audienceįlamenco is meant for smaller animation studios and individuals at home. The blog post has been adjusted to reflect this. Update : while the original design proposed to use PostgreSQL as database, the current direction is to leverage an embedded, no-need-to-install database instead: SQLite. It supports any Blender version, hardware configuration and any other software with a command line interface. It is aimed at performing tasks such as frame rendering, and video encoding. In this blog post Sybren Stüvel describes the current vision on Flamenco 3, with the intent to discuss this with anyone interested, get feedback, and improve the design.įlamenco is the Open Source render farm software, developed by Blender Studio. Almost 5 years after the release of Flamenco 2.0, development has started on a new version: Flamenco 3.

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